Yep, I was reading this kind of breakdown at lunch. It releases the ions from the red blood cells that carry oxygen. This causes the body to starve for air even though the lungs are getting plenty. Everything else is a symptom of this. Malaria, a parasite, similarly affects red blood cells' oxygen carrying ability...which is why the malaria drug is effective.
They nuked the article, but I have an archive right here:
https://web.archive.org/web/20200405061401/https://medium.com/@agaiziunas/covid-19-had-us-all-fooled-but-now-we-might-have-finally-found-its-secret-91182386efcb
Yep, I was reading this kind of breakdown at lunch. It releases the ions from the red blood cells that carry oxygen. This causes the body to starve for air even though the lungs are getting plenty. Everything else is a symptom of this. Malaria, a parasite, similarly affects red blood cells' oxygen carrying ability...which is why the malaria drug is effective.